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by girishso 3y ago
Can't block Youtube shorts with these DNS adblockers, I know I can use browser extensions on a computer (and I do), but I really want to block shorts on iOS/Android apps. Tried the squid https proxy rabbit hole, but could not get
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by girishso 3y ago
I will totally pay for something like this if it answers from my local documents, bookmarks, browser history etc.
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by girishso 3y ago
Apple is becoming more Walled Garden with every release, after using Macs exclusively for 15 years I have started thinking of moving to Linux. I am on Ventura, XtraFinder [0] stops working after a few days and edit/run cycle for shell
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by girishso 3y ago
I have some olds Macs lying around and can't install Tailscale on older OSes. I got a Pi02W working as Tailscale subnet[0], so I can access all my devices on LAN remotely. [0] https://tailscale.com/kb/1019/sub
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by girishso 3y ago
Slightly tangential, many years ago I searched for a really cool .com domain and it was available. Tried to book the domain after a couple of days and the domain was gone. My hunch is that the site I used for searching booked it by themse
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by girishso 3y ago
That reminds me of setting unsupported display resolution back in the mid 90s on Windows 95, resulted in blank screen. Luckily my brother and I knew the UI by heart, rebooted the machine -> opened "Start" menu -> Settings -&
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by girishso 3y ago
For the exact same reason I started using MacOS Mail app with gmail, but I am realising now that it doesn’t download “all” the emails unfortunately. Lieer looks like a good option, thank you.
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by girishso 3y ago
Recently wanted to simulate slow network on Mac and came across Network Link Conditioner, it’s pretty good. No need to setup proxy or anything else. It needs to be installed from Xcode additional tools. https://nshipster.com&#x2F
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by girishso 3y ago
Yes I'm using Apple iPhone 20W USB C charger. Guess it's 9 VDC/2.2 A.
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by girishso 3y ago
Running with iPhone/Mac charger.. the desktop shows notification about “Power supply not supporting 5A” and runs Ok until I try to play a video on YouTube, then it simply reboots. And yes it’s nearly impossible to find 5v5a power suppl
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by girishso 3y ago
Is there any option to set a default ISO to boot? Without having to select a file manually. I keep juggling between different OSes on raspberry pies and it’s a pain to reformat drive again and again. But sometimes i do want it to boot head
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by girishso 3y ago
and I was wondering if it was Digg
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by girishso 3y ago
When correcting a typo, tapping on the character in a word selects the entire word instead of putting the caret next to the tapped character. Also, long pressing "space" doesn't move caret as it moved to in previous iOS vers
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by girishso 3y ago
You can try applying to small companies, they probably won’t have coding rounds.
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by girishso 3y ago
Used to use Alfred app’s clipboard history, but recently I’m moving everything to Raycast. But couldn’t figure out how to paste second item from the history with a shortcut key, other than that Raycast is pretty good.
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by girishso 3y ago
> person of interest Nice to see, most underrated series, the only series I watch every year.
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by girishso 3y ago
Unrelated, but Wordstar reminded me of the time when I used a computer for the first time in 1993. The only thing I knew about computers was cd ws ws
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by girishso 3y ago
Little confused, can this be used for Remote Desktop sharing, like VNC?
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by girishso 3y ago
Ruby on Rails demo by DHH back in 2005/6. I was blown away that he created a blog application with comments in 15 minutes, I was working on Asp.NET back then and it would have taken me about a week to do that. https://youtu
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by girishso 3y ago
I don’t even understand how this flat ui thing got popular
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by girishso 3y ago
Nothing fancy, Alerts are posted in a slack channel.
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by girishso 3y ago
recently came across Orb, it's a linux VM cum docker runtime. VM boots in seconds, access any folder on Mac as linux folder https://orbstack.dev/
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by girishso 3y ago
Any specific tool you can recommend?
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by girishso 3y ago
Currently using Jellyfin installed on an old Mac mini. It’s mostly good, except I could not figure out the parental controls. Exploring other options now, in particular emby.
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by girishso 3y ago
It was dead on arrival because of the “artificial” scarcity of accounts, you needed to be invited to create your account. Google assumed they can recreate the Gmail invites craze.
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by girishso 3y ago
That's terrific, thank you!
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by girishso 3y ago
I’m skeptical of upgrading OS. Recently I upgraded my M1 16GB to Ventura from Monterey after waiting for almost a year, and I’m noticing a perceptible slowdown and increased RAM usage.
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by girishso 3y ago
What plugins? I use GPT4 but never used any plugins.
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by girishso 3y ago
I tried Excel few years back, it’s only easy when all you are tracking is income and expenses. But when you buy some stocks or MFs, the amount is debited from Bank but it’s not really an “expense”. And good luck tracking fund flows between
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by girishso 3y ago
Most Static Site Generators generate blog from markdown, which is not feasible for projects like company websites etc. For such projects I like Middleman ( https://middlemanapp.com ) which provides layouts/partials and thing

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